On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:52:34 -0600 Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We can detect an AHCI-capable Intel chipsets (in most cases anyway), > but problem is that a lot of systems with such chipsets, especially > laptops, unfortunately have no way to actually put the controller into > AHCI mode (no BIOS option for it). We could whine about it, but in a > lot of cases there's not much that can be done about it.. > > Intel chipsets are pretty much the only ones that have the separate > modes in the BIOS for AHCI - others like NVIDIA AHCI-compliant > controllers support both legacy mode and AHCI in the same device, > which is a lot more convenient in some ways.. Yes, I agree completely! It's absurd that in plain XXI century, hardware makers still default to legacy mode without a chance for the user to change that in BIOS. I understand that Linus Torvalds complained about EFI some time ago (http://kerneltrap.org/node/6884), citing it as "other Intel brain-damage" but at least EFI would give a chance for the user to interact better with the system than the limited, ugly and old "BIOS". When every motherboard maker adopt EFI, I hope this limitation will go away. I can't understand why new Core i7 systems still use BIOS instead of EFI. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
